Ashara Zavros was a female Togruta Jedi Padawan who served the Jedi Order until she joined the Sith Inquisitor and the Sith Empire during the Cold War.

Ashara Zavros descended from a long line of Force users. From an early age, she had aspired to study the Force and become one of the best Jedi the order has to offer.

Ashara come to Taris to train under Jedi Masters Ryen and Ocera, whose philosophy was that Padawans best learn the travails of using the Force through firsthand experience of the galaxy. In Ashara’s case, the Masters brought her to Taris for two reasons: First, to teach her compassion amidst the destruction that had occurred there and warn against the dangers of pride and the dark side. Second, to complete her trials by helping to drive a dark ghost from the ruins of a Jedi enclave. In fact the Jedi ghost that worried the Masters was Ashara's ancestor.